Agenda
Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE)
Conference
Location: APLU, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC
Date: October 4, 2012
8:15 -
8:45
Registration and continental breakfast
8:45 - 8:55
Opening remarks
Alex Majchrowicz (Director), RIDGE Program, ERS
Mary Bohman (Administrator), ERS
Morning
session
8:55 -
9:00 Comments
from the RIDGE Center for Targeted Studies at the Southern
Rural
Development
Center
Lionel J.
"Bo" Beaulieu (Director), Mississippi State University
9:00 -
9:30
Employment Instability and Food Insecurity of Rural North
Carolinians during the
Recession
Allison DeMarco, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
9:30 -
10:00 South
Carolina Farm-to-School Program and Children's and Parents' Food
Choices
Sonya Jones, Amy Teixeira, Casey Childers, and Jacqueline Ball,
University of South
Carolina
10:00 -
10:15 Session
break
10:15 -
10:20 Comments from
the RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Research at
the
Institute for
Research on Poverty
Judi Bartfeld (Director), University of
Wisconsin-Madison
10:20 -
10:50 Does the
Neighborhood Food Environment Influence the Relationship
between
Food Stamp
Program Participation and Weight-Related
Outcomes?
Diane Gibson, Baruch College, City University of New
York
10:50 -
11:20 SNAP
Participation, Food Choices, Nutritional and Health Outcomes
among
Low-Income
Women
Zhou Yang, Emory University
11:20 -
11:50 Studying
Non-Use of Food Assistance among Low-Income San
Franciscans
David B. Grusky and Christopher Wimer, Stanford
University
11:50 -
1:15
Lunch on your own
Afternoon
session
1:15 -
1:45
Food Stamps, Food Insufficiency, and Diet-Related Diseases
among the Elderly
Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley, Kent State University and Katie
Fitzpatrick,
Seattle
University
1:45 -
2:15
Food Assistance and Children's Eating Patterns, Food
Insecurity, and Obesity: The
Influence of Local Food
Prices
Taryn Morrissey and Alison Jacknowitz, American
University
2:15 -
2:45
Identifying Food Deserts in the Rural South: A Comparison
of Food Access Measures
Angela Liese, Sarah Battersby, and Bethany Bell, University of
South Carolina
2:45 -
3:00
Session break
3:00 -
3:30
The Food Desert: Economic and Space Remedies
Gayaneh Kyureghian and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr., University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
3:30 -
4:00
An Analysis of the Relationship between School Meal
Programs, Childhood Health
and Academic
Performance
Kristen Capogrossi and Wen You (Supervising Professor),
Virginia Tech University
4:00 -
4:30
The "Heat or Eat" Dilemma: Energy and Food Consumption
Patterns of Low-Income
Households
Anthony G. Murray and Bradford F. Mills, (Supervising
Professor),
Virginia Tech
University
4:30 - 4:45
Closing
remarks and adjournment
David Smallwood (Branch Chief), Food Assistance Branch,
ERS